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Geek Culture / Not seeing the dislike bar on YouTube

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DeadTomGC
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Posted: 15th Apr 2012 08:25
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Here is a comment I saw on YouTube.

Quote: "To not see the dislike bar, you need at least a like to dislike ratio of 186-1"


Here is a link to the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2gk46wfxIk&feature=b-vrec

I decided to calculate the actual proportion. So, this is what I did:

First off, I assumed that the dislike region would become invisible to when the region is allowed less than .5 of a pixels space.

Then I measured how many pixels are used for the like/dislike bar.
This turned out to be 163 pixels. Weird, right?

Then I said that the number of pixels given to the dislikes is (the number of dislikes over the total number of votes)* the number of pixel on the bar (163). This number must be less than .5.

We set dislikes to 1 and solve for the likes where the total number of votes is dislikes+likes.

Solving, I get that one must have 325 likes for each dislike....

This is incorrect because we have attached evidence.

Therefore,(as could be expected) truncation is the likely form of determining pixel color at the margin.

So, we change our .5 to a 1 and solve to obtain 162 likes for each dislike.

So, nice try to imaterminator, but its not 186 but instead 162.


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Posted: 15th Apr 2012 22:26
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DeadTomGC
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Hehehe, ya, nice....


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Wolf
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Posted: 16th Apr 2012 02:16 Edited at: 16th Apr 2012 02:16
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You are aware that you don't have unlimited time on earth and really shouldn't spend it on things like this, DeadTom?

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes, art is knowing which ones to keep.
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DeadTomGC
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Posted: 16th Apr 2012 05:04
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Quote: "You are aware that you don't have unlimited time on earth and really shouldn't spend it on things like this, DeadTom?"

I probably have a better idea of this than you do...

Actually, I shouldn't say that, but it only took me about 10 minutes and I don't do things like this normally.

Also, yes, I don't have much time... I have an 8:00 AM class tomorrow with a take home quiz due and its 10:00 PM now.

So, ya, I've been pressed for time all semester. (ECE major)


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Posted: 16th Apr 2012 16:17
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He wasn't actually wrong anyway. He said "At least a 186-1 ratio"

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DeadTomGC
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Quote: "He wasn't actually wrong anyway. He said "At least a 186-1 ratio""


That's the point. He said "at least" when you only need 162.


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Posted: 16th Apr 2012 19:43 Edited at: 16th Apr 2012 19:46
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Quote: "That's the point. He said "at least" when you only need 162."

Actually, the point is, that no one cares.
It's not like that guy made a mistake in some important scientific equation...

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Posted: 16th Apr 2012 19:51
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Quote: "I probably have a better idea of this than you do..."


I didn't mean it in a hostile manner and well, since I don't know you, you might even be correct. Even though that creating this thread doesn't make it very likely. Lets just assume you had a serious geekout on this matter

Quote: "(ECE major)"


Good luck! You won't have trouble finding a job with that kind of qualification.

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Quote: " Lets just assume you had a serious geekout on this matter "

Yep, umm, kinda. I have always liked scientifically analyzing everything, but I know I just don't have time to look at everything that interests me. I guess I just gave in to the urge there...


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Quote: "That's the point. He said "at least" when you only need 162."


The dislike ratio would be the ratio of dislikes:likes. So I read it as you need at least 1/186, which is correct.

1/162 > 1/186.

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Aaaand someone else disliked it, just to end debate xD

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Posted: 17th Apr 2012 01:26 Edited at: 17th Apr 2012 01:26
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Um, the statement went like this
Quote: "To not see the dislike bar, you need at least a like to dislike ratio of 186-1"


which implies, 186/1 not 1/186. Besides, when does 1/likes being larger help you not see the dislike bar? 1/1 certainly lets you see it.


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